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Lessons from 2004 Tsunami Response in COVID-19 era Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Amid all the headlines about the COVID-19 pandemic, a notable development may have escaped the attention of observers. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun organized a conference call with close allies and partners to discuss the crisis and ways to coordinate their responses. The call featured senior officials from the Governments of India, Australia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Vietnam. The participants planned to meet in weekly conference calls.
Most of the populations in these countries are under lockdowns or stay-at-home orders. While the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, it is important to recall another time when the U.S. and its close allies and partners conferred intensely after another black swan event with tremendous transnational effects: the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami.
7 Podcasts to Comfort and Connect
If you’re feeling unmoored this holiday season, or just burned out from the past 10 months, these shows can provide a balm.
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Dec. 25, 2020
It’s almost time to bid goodbye and good riddance to 2020, one of the worst years most of us have ever lived through. Though the end of the pandemic is in sight, this holiday season remains a lonely, difficult one, with renewed lockdowns keeping many separated from their loved ones, their communities and their festive traditions.
If you’re feeling unmoored this December, or just burned out from the past year, these podcasts will keep you company and help you feel connected, even in isolation.
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MH17 plane disaster movie in the works at Dutch banner Revolver Amsterdam
The passenger jet MH 17, scheduled from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a Soviet-made missile over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all 298 people aboard.
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A piece of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is pictured in a field near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk on July 20, 2014. (AFP) By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Dutch production company Revolver Amsterdam is developing a feature film about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster.
The passenger jet MH 17, scheduled from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a Soviet-made missile over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all 298 people aboard.
Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts
Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism.
June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia to Finland, killing all nine on board. One passenger was Henry W. Antheil Jr., an American diplomat who was carrying diplomatic pouches from US legations in Estonia and Latvia.
March 3, 1942 – Japanese aircraft shoot down a KNILM flight on its way to Broome, Australia. The plane crash-lands on the beach at Carnot Bay. Four people die.
June 1, 1943 – British actor Leslie Howard is among 17 killed when German fighters shoot down a British Overseas Airways Corporation flight over the Bay of Biscay.